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Flushing, Queens Offers Northeast Chinese Cuisine, Dongbei Cai

nytimes.com | JULIA MOSKIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Dongbei Cai, Flushing Queens, Food, Chinese Food, Northeast China, Queens, China, New York City, New York, New York News

Over the last five years, at least five Dongbei restaurants have opened in Flushing, Queens, providing some particularly enticing entry points to the ...

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The Take-Out Lover's Dilemma

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Leftovers, Chinese Food, Rice, Takeout, Park Slope, Recipes, Delivery Food, Fried Rice, Food Blogs, Chinese Takeout, Broccoli, Broccoli-in-Garlic-Sauce Fried Rice, New York News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Broccoli-in-Garlic-Sauce Fried Rice is one of those leftover dishes that doesn't quite feel like leftovers, since it really is different than what came before.

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Animal Report

Dave Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Grocery, Chinese Food, Cats, Dave Hil, Animals, Combos, Fish, Comedy News
Dave Hill

After nearly maiming me, the kitty cat got back up and headed for the end- of-aisle chip display. Here it just sat there and stared for a second before discovering a box of snack-sized Combos.

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Large and in Charge

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Depression, Colonialism, Hawthorne, Fat, Strunk and White, My Friend Baker, Glamour Magazine, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Natives, Body Image, How-to-Speed-Up-Metabolism, Christianity, Religious Conversion, Metabolism, Poor Richard's Almanack, My Friend Emily, Chinese Food, Benjamin Franklin, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Whether you're colonizing natives in the New World or trying to keep women down without actually having to do anything, it's always good to make the people you control feel that everything is their idea.

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Life Cycle: Zen and the Art of Producing Chopsticks

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Aspen, Chinese Food, Green, Eco, Life Cycle, Green Living, Grass, Environmentally-Friendly, Willow, Environment, Sarah Smarsh, Take-Out, Bamboo, Chopsticks, Mooshu Pork, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Green News
Simran Sethi

People have been impressing their dates with chopstick dexterity since the Shang Dynasty. But the throw-away version of chopsticks is a less romantic yet marvelous invention.

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What I Love And Hate About New York

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Food, Los Angeles, Chinese Food, Air Conditioning, Pizza, New York, Public Transportation, New York News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

Your pizza is too damn good. I'm lucky I don't live in New York, because if I did I'd eat about three loaves of bread a day and start looking like some sort of Mario Batali-John Madden hybrid.

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The Last Chinese Chef

One For The Table | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nicole-Mones, The Last Chinese Chef, Chinese Cooking, Chefs, Gourmet Cooking, Home Cooking, Beach-Reading, Cooking Recipes, Cooking, Chinese Culture, China-Mao, Mao, Chinese Food, Chick Lit, Healthy Living News
One For The Table

As I prefer a well-prepared meal with beautiful, whole ingredients, I prefer a well-written book with beautiful, thoughtful ideas. After consuming either of these, I am well nourished.

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China Journal, May 16, 2009: Terra-Cotta Soldiers, Islam, and Pollution

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Chinese Food, Terra Cotta Army, Southern China, Green News
Madeleine M. Kunin

China, so quick to tear down the old and build up the new, no matter what the social or environmental cost, recognized the treasure of Terracota Warriors for what they are -- a link to a great past.

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In Search of Real Chinese Food

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Food, The Last Chinese Chef, Chinese Food, Jennifer 8 Lee, Nicole Mones, Style News
Alex Remington

My weekly addiction to Mongolian beef is helping to bar gourmet Chinese from gaining a foothold in America.

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The Sound of Silence

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Culture, Religion, Living, Jews, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Chinese Food, Shofar, Rabbi, Healthy Living News
Earl Pomerantz

The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.

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Tainted Chinese Milk Has Now Hospitalized Over 10,000 Children

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Tainted Chinese Milk, Politics News

BEIJING — More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized in China's tainted milk scandal, Chinese health officials revealed, while the country de...

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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Tainted Chinese Milk Leaves 6,200 Babies Sick, 3 Dead

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: China, Milk, Tainted Milk, Tainted Chinese Milk, Chinese Food, Home News

BEIJING — The government was dispatching thousands of inspectors to monitor producers as officials reported Wednesday that the number of babies ...

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Chinese Baby Formula Tainted With Harmful Chemical, FDA Warns

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Chinese Exports, Chinese Food, Baby Formula, Chinese Baby Formula, Fda, Home News

WASHINGTON — Tainted infant formula from China may be on sale at ethnic groceries in this country, even though it is not approved for importatio...

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Strange Foods -- China Takes Gold

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Humor, Beijing, Chinese Food, Gold, China, Cuisine, Olympics, Strange Foods, Restaurant, Snakes, Cooking, Exotic, Food, Eating, Bullfrog, Bronze Medal, Roker, Vieira, Style News
Suzette Standring

I like to think of myself as an adventurous eater, but I've got to hand it to China. They grab the gold on the food front.

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Dog Meat Banned in Beijing During Games

Danwei | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Beijing, Food, Chinese Food, China, Dog Meat, Dogs, Olympics, Home News

A Chinese blogger called Han Yue has posted a notice that purports to be from the Beijing City Government Food Safety Office (北京市政府食品安...

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MSG Wants Its Reputation Back

The New York Times | Julia Moskin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Chinese Food, Msg Health, Msg, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Jennifer 8 Lee, Healthy Living News

Even now, after "Chinese restaurant syndrome" has been thoroughly debunked (virtually all studies since then confirm that monosodium glutamate in norm...

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